Tweet Twitter has admitted that it is currently experiencing some issues with its service, while elsewhere, some iTunes and iCloud users are having problems accessing those services too. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Apple is giving its users more security over their Apple accounts and remotely stored data with a new option of two-step security authentication. Users can add two forms of verification on their Apple ID — the identity used to sign into iTunes, the App Store, FaceTime, iMessage and more — and their iCloud account. Apple updated its two-step verification FAQ page on Thursday. By turning it on, users will…

Tweet When Apple broke out Podcasts as a separate iOS app from iTunes last year, a rather glaring omission was the ability to create playlists. Six months later, Apple has added that feature along with several other improvements to the app in an update released Thursday. New features in the Podcasts 1.2 update include: playlists synced from iTunes now appear in the app; the ability to create automatically updating stations featuring…

Tweet iCloud, the successor to MobileMe, has been found to censor emails which include the words “barely legal teen”, a move which has raised questions about the reliability to Apple’s email service. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Rene Ritchie’s excellent article on iCloud and Dropbox has forced me to examine how I use iCloud and other cloud storage. When iCloud launched in 2011, I had hopes it would be a single-source solution, but over the years it’s become apparent to me that for my uses, no single cloud-based storage fulfills all my needs. Instead, I rely on a few different solutions based on the strengths of…